Financiere Saint James

Type

Family Office

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

77

Average round size

12M

Portfolio companies

58

Rounds per year

7.00

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.23

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyB2BSaaSMobile AppsEducation

Summary

Financiu00e8re Saint James appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The venture was found in Europe in France. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris.

The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Financiu00e8re Saint James is 10-50 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The fund was created by Michael Benabou. The overall number of key employees were 4.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are B2B, Mobile Apps. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spendesk, Shadow, Copper. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Financiu00e8re Saint James, startups are often financed by Wilco, Kima Ventures, eFounders. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GUIBOR, Kima Ventures, XAnge. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Idinvest Partners, XAnge, Serena.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseFintechEcommerceConsumer/Retail Show 1 more
Stage focus
Seed
Check size
218K — 5M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
77
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
7.00
Follow on index
0.23
Investments by industry
  • Software (17)
  • Financial Services (12)
  • Information Technology (10)
  • Internet (10)
  • Real Estate (8)
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Investments by region
  • France (61)
  • Spain (4)
  • The Netherlands (1)
  • Israel (1)
  • United States (3)
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Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
58M
Group Appearance index
0.90
Avg. company exit year
5
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Elyn 08 Mar 2023 E-Commerce, Vertical Search Seed 2M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Spiko 12 Jun 2024 Seed 4M Ile-de-France, Paris, France

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